Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 45
The host was within the hall, with his folk until daylight; with sorrow and lamentation did they pass the night, bemoaning their bitter loss.
Who acts: host, sorrow · What happens: be, pass, bemoan · To what, where: bitter loss
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, sorrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 host | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hall | cop |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 folk | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 folk | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 folk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | appos |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 daylight | case |
| 12 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 folk | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pass | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sorrow | case |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pass | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lamentation | cc |
| 17 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sorrow | conj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pass | aux |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pass | nsubj |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hall | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pass | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bemoaning | punct |
| 24 | bemoaning | bemoan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pass | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 loss | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 loss | amod |
| 27 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bemoaning | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the host | within the hall; host's folk until daylight appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · do-support | sorrow | night | with sorrow and lamentation | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | bemoan | gerund | sorrow not said here | sorrow's bitter loss | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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